Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-14
ORDINANCE No. al.
Published July 18th. 1871

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Published July 14th, 1881
AN ORDINANCE to amend section of Ordinance
No. 1H of the ordinances of the city of Dodge
City, Kansas, entitled an ordinance providing
| for business license tax.
Be 1t ordained by the Mayor and Councimen of the
city Of Dodge City, Kansas:
SECTION 1. The original section No. 8 of Ordi-
! nance No. 131 of the ordinances Of the city OF
Dodge City, entitled an ordinance providing for a
| license tax is hereby amended so as to read
| SEC. III. That the license tax on the following
trades, professions and avOcations be follows
| AuctiOne& Of manufactured goods, per day,
| So
| Auction houses, per year $50.
Abstract makers, per year, S25
Billiard tables. table. per year, $40; for each
! additional table, per year S..
Banks, per year, $50.
Bowling alleys, per year. SIS,
Butchers, per year, S25.
BARRIERS, employing one or more men, per year, go.
Brick yards, per year. SIS.
Cigar and tobacco stores, per year, SIS.
Commission merchants, per year, SIS.
Concerts, per day. IS.
Coal yards, per year, S25.
C0nfectoners, per year, S15, provided that when
the business of confectioner is carried on by any
person.Or persons in connection with any other
business for which license tax is paid the license
tax shall be, per year, SIS.
Corn doctors, per day, So.
Candy manufacturer, per year, S15,provided that
when the business of candy manufacturer is car
ried on by any person persons in connection with
any other business for which license tax is paid,
| the license tax shall be, per year, So.
Cigar manufacturer, per year, SIS.
Circus or managaTie, per day. 500.
Circus or managarie parade streets when the
circus managarie is exhibited outside of the city
limits per day, $50.
Cane racks, per day. s..
Doctors, per year, $40.
Dentists, (resdent, per year, $40.
Dentists, (transient) per day. s..
Dealers III stone, per year, $40.
| Drays, carts and other vehicles used in trans
porting goods from place to place, per year, SO.
Express companies, per year, S25.
Electric light companies, per year, S25.
FURNITURE dealers and undertakers, per year,S2o.
Flour mills, per year, S25.
Fur, Hide and wool dealers, per year, SIS.
Gift enterprises per day,S10.
General merchandise, per year. $50, provided
that when any party shall take out general mer-
chandlse license, he shall be exempt from any
other merchandise tax.
AThe term general merchandise used in
| this ordinance, shall be construed to any
place OF bushes where more than one line of goods
| is kept in stock.
Hotels charging 81 per day and upwards per
| year, S25.
| Hotels charging less than 81 per day, per year,
| So
Insurance Companies, Including life, fire, or
marine insurance companies, per year, S25.
Ice dealers, per year, $40.
| :.
| per year, $40.
| Intelligence office, per year, SIS.
| insurance agents, per year, $40.
| Jewellers, per year, SIS
Livery stables, per year, S25
| Live stock dealers, per year, $40.
| Lumber dealers, per year, S25.
| Lawyers, per year, $40
| Lunch counters, per year, $40
Lung testers, per day. $40.
| Loan agents, per year, S25.
Merchants selling one line of goods only, per
year, S15.
Money brokers, per year, S25.
Millinery stores per year, S15.
Milk dealers. one wagon, per year, SO ; each
additional wagon, IS.
| Muscle testers, per day, 49,
! Merchant talOrs, per year, SIS.
Opera Houses per year, $50.
| Public Halls. per year, S25.
| Peddlers of any description, per day, So (This
| shall not apply to any farmer or gardner selling
the products OF his farm nor to any resident of the
city selling goods of his her own manufacture }
Pawn brokers, per year, $50.
| Public lecturers for pay, per day, S..
| Patent right Dealers per day, $40
Pistol and shooting galleries, per year, $40.
| Real estate agents, per year, $23.
| Real estate brokers, per year, S25.
Restaurants, per year, $40
| Street exhibitions, per day, S..
| Street railroads, per year, S2J.
| Stock and bond brokers, per year, $50.
| Saddle and harness dealers, per year, SIS.
| Stationers, per year, $40.
| Second hand dealers, per year, $40.
Soda and mineral water factories, per year, SIS.
| Shows, per day, S.. The word 'shOw'' shall in
clude sligh fhand performances, tumbling feats
| or any exhibition for pay.
| Theatrical performances, not under contract, per
day, SIS. The words "theatrical performances
shall include al dramatic exhibitions of every des-
| criptiOn for pay, except scientific and literary
lectures, and entertainments given exclusively by
the citizens of this city.
| Telephone companies, per year, S25.
| Ticket brokers, per year, SIS.
| Wagon yards and cOrras, per year, $40.
Wagon and carriage factories, per year, S25.
| The business of real estate agents brokers or
| dealers and insurance and loan agents shall be
construed as one line of business, and when the
same is all done by the same person or firm in the
same Office, license tax of S25 shall be all that
shall be required to be paid by such person or firm.
The term real estate agent shall include all per-
SEC. H. Original section No. of Ordinance
| No. 131 of the ordinances of the city of Dodge
City, entitled ''an ordinance to provide license
tax, - be, and it is hereby repealed.
SECTION III. This ordinance shall take effect
and be in force from and after its publication once
| in the Dodge City TINES.
Passed the Council June 22d, 1887.
| Attest: GEO. f. JONES, City Clerk.
Not having been approved by the Mayor, and he
| having failed to return the above ordinance with
his objections in writing at the next regular meet
ing of the council, the same became law without
| his signature. Attest: GEO. +. JONES,
City Clerk.